I found my log book starting in 1974

[paul b]

This picture from probably 1979 or 80 shows the green dead corals that were transported from the tank in my old home and the new, bleached white ones must have been the new ones I bought to take up the extra space because this tank was much larger.

I can see I was building my basement around the tank as it was under construction here

 

[Tommy]

Im surprised those pages weren't carved out in stone       

[paul b]

I'm not that old.  I normally carved them into a tree.

[paul b]

From my notes it looks like my tank had nothing but diseases but then I realized that I only wrote something in the log book when something happened, like a disease. I rarely wrote anything if nothing was happening as I have months in between logging anything. In the very beginning it was all diseases because the fish all came on the verge of croaking. The stores would throw out all their fish in the first few days if they didn't sell because they died anyway. Eventually we figured it out and kept copper pennies in the water to control parasites.